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One dark Halloween night… The Dama Bianca appears in the videoclip of “Black
The band presented its most recent album, “Danse Moonlight”: her premature death in her castle
Macabre,” to the public on 27 October 2023, their becomes the narrative thread of the video and a
sixteenth studio masterpiece which stands out for supernatural presence that wanders through the
its dark, mysterious, macabre appeal, but with the corridors of the place she once called home.
same great identity that distinguishes the band’s
style, and reaching its Top 5 in the UK rankings.
The origin of this album was Halloween of the
previous year, when the group was on a world tour A fragrance that adds to the atmosphere
and on that date were in Las Vegas where they Dama Bianca is a delicately floral and sensual fragrance.
celebrated at an event showcasing the world’s musical It opens with the pungent notes of lime and Chinese
repertory. Duran Duran were struck by the medieval kumquat, which lead towards a heart of Egyptian jasmine,
danses macabres they heard and transposed this violet, lily of the valley and lilac. The base notes give an
atmosphere, which makes fun of human beings, exotic boost thanks to Indonesian sandalwood, cedar
where irony is mixed with death and there is a sort wood, vanilla and white musk, which give the right calibre
of sense of resurrection that only music can evoke, to reinvigorate the senses even on the darkest and most
into the piece “Black Moonlight.” With its frenetic mysterious Halloween night.
and breathtaking sonorities, this song is the meeting
point between the “dark side” of Duran Duran and
their timeless glamour dance-rock.

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